Word: trusting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will of William F. Miller, of New York, filed yesterday in Pittsfield, his entire estate, estimated at more than $1,000,000, will revert to the University after the death of his wife, to whom the estate is now left in trust...
...scorns religion, who refuses to believe anything religious that cannot be proved to his intellect as a problem in mathematics is proved. History and religion can show this man nothing more wonderful than what he can find in his own intellect. We cannot trust our intellect or our sentiment alone to give us the whole broad meaning of religion, but we must open our whole being, and try to receive as much of religion as we can. He who does not feel the spiritual life is dead to the richest experience given to humanity...
...sometimes is, merely the power of putting two and two together, has been a characteristic of the most eminent men of history. Without it such leaders as Moses. Washington, and Lincoln, or scientists like Newton and Franklin would have been impotent. Friendship and love, which necessitate a belief and trust in discos qualities, and even religion itself, without this seventh sense would be impossible
...tariff is not properly an issue. The Wilson bill, a Democratic measure, was framed for revenue purposes only, but it was essentially protective. The Steel Corporation is our greatest trust, but the Wilson tariff against steel and iron was not a particle lower than the Dingley tariff against the same products. Ten years ago, a high duty meant competition and low prices; today it results in the formation of trusts, which destroy competition. In this the Republican party does not approve. It is committed to protection only as a principle and not as a schedule...
...unique are the opportunities for service offered to men of our day compared with those given to corresponding individuals who have gone before. The wonderful development of means of communication, means of intelligence, and means of production are forms of God's call to Christian service, are a trust put into our hands with which to answer the call to Christian service...